{"id":229666,"date":"2025-08-18T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=229666"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:07:17","slug":"are-your-kids-learning-diy-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=229666","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Kids Learning DIY Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many parents say they\u2019re stepping in to teach kids how to fix things at home. A new survey shows sons get these lessons more than daughters \u2014 and many parents fear their kids won\u2019t be as handy as past generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0e <strong>What\u2019s Happening:<\/strong> A national survey of parents points to a growing at\u2011home push to teach practical skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>72% say they teach DIY basics like plumbing, painting, and appliance repair at home, starting around age 7.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>60% worry their kids won\u2019t be as self\u2011sufficient as earlier generations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>35% say their child\u2019s school offers no practical skills classes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>17% admit they teach more DIY to sons than daughters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>About 1 in 3 say they didn\u2019t learn enough DIY skills themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\uddf0 <strong>What It Means For You:<\/strong> If your child\u2019s school has cut shop or home ec, the job may fall on you. Think about which skills your kids need \u2014 and make sure you teach them to all your kids, not just the boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udded <strong>The Big Picture:<\/strong> Practical classes have faded in many schools over the last two decades, squeezed by testing demands and budgets. That can widen gaps at home: parents with time, tools, and know\u2011how can pass skills on; others cannot. And when more lessons go to sons than daughters, it keeps old roles in place. The result could be a new generation less ready to handle basic fixes \u2014 and more dependent on paid help \u2014 unless families and schools rebuild space for real\u2011world skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddc2\ufe0f <strong>The Sources:<\/strong> Frontdoor-commissioned national survey of U.S. parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many parents say they\u2019re stepping in to teach kids how to fix things at home. A new survey shows sons get these lessons more than daughters \u2014 and many parents fear their kids won\u2019t be as handy as past generations. \ud83d\udd0e What\u2019s Happening: A national survey of parents points to a growing at\u2011home push to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":229667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[16518,18873,9567],"class_list":["post-229666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-diy","tag-diy-skills","tag-parenting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}